[Kde-kiosk] kde-kiosk Digest, Vol 59, Issue 4

Robert Taylor robtaylor at tinsputnik.com
Tue Feb 12 18:20:41 CET 2008


Holeeeeee!

Why haven't I heard of this before?

Mr. Berge, my profound thanks for pointing out this tool to us.  THANK YOU!

Tangentially, does anyone know if KIOSK work is being done for kde4 yet?

- Robert

fsgaston at schooltechperson.com wrote:
> (Roel Berger)
>
> Roel, I think the product you are looking for is called ITALC, it lets you
> monitor the machines, take snapshots etc, wonderful tool.  We use it in
> Indiana on our 20,000+ desktops.
>
> Thanks
>
> Forrest
>
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:35:45 +0100
> From: Roel Berger <roel.berger at azerti.be>
> Subject: [Kde-kiosk] KRFB desktop
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> Hi everybody,
>
> Short story: I am deploying KUbuntu in our company on 100+ systems. And
> it is necessary that we can watch along with our clients @ any time, for
> coaching and monitoring purposes.
>
> I have used the KDE kiosk tool to lock KDE down and enabled KRFB. We can
> watch along, everything works great.
> Just one thing I can not configure: I have to disable the warning that
> pops up when somebody connects to the system with VNC.
>
> Is this possible somehow using an option, or do I have to change source
> code?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Roel Berger
> IT, Azerti NV
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:52:46 +0400
> From: lash the core <lash at ilb.ru>
> Subject: Re: [Kde-kiosk] KRFB desktop
> To: kde-kiosk at kde.org
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> Roel Berger ?????:
>   
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> Short story: I am deploying KUbuntu in our company on 100+ systems. And
>> it is necessary that we can watch along with our clients @ any time, for
>> coaching and monitoring purposes.
>>
>> I have used the KDE kiosk tool to lock KDE down and enabled KRFB. We can
>> watch along, everything works great.
>> Just one thing I can not configure: I have to disable the warning that
>> pops up when somebody connects to the system with VNC.
>>
>> Is this possible somehow using an option, or do I have to change source
>> code?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Roel Berger
>> IT, Azerti NV
>>     
> Hello. VNC implementation from http://realvnc.com has a module for
> X-windows system. After installnig it you have to include these line in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> Section "Module"
> 	...
> 	Load                "vnc"
> 	...
> EndSection
>
> and:
>
> Section "Screen"
> 	...
> 	Option  "SecurityTypes" "VncAuth"
> 	Option  "UserPasswdVerifier" "VncAuth"
> 	Option  "PasswordFile" "/etc/vncpasswd"
> 	...
> EndSection
>
> There is one miss.. You can set only one password in /etc/vncpasswd.
> Hope that helps.
>
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